The O'Brien Press

whatever you may think

couldn’t believe my eyes when I first saw number 13 Crag Road. No wonder everyone at the Sunny Hills Children’s Home had sniggered when I’d said it was going to be my new home.

She has been annoying people for years

she would be a far worse pest if she wasn’t afraid of one thing:

you ever see

Anna nodded meekly,

Ever since the divorce

She had no intention

who she’d hardly ever met.

Her dad looked unsure, like he wanted to say something else to her but didn’t know where to begin.